I can confirm this bug on an Dell Inspiron 6000 system with PATA, module ata_piix.
I have a load average of about 2.00 when hald is started. If I remove the sr_mod, the system drops down to nearly 0 avg. IIRC the behaviour wasn't there with Dapper beta (which was the first install on this laptop), but don't take this for granted. I realised a speed after some system update, but don't remember which update exactly. -- hald blocks ide bus if cdrom on same bus with harddisk(was:Extremly slow IO performance with dapper, high wa% on Dell Inspiron 8200) https://launchpad.net/bugs/48499 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
